Fishtrap’s Outpost on the Snake River with Craig Childs
September 3-8, 2021
Registration Open: $1995 (includes meals and camping) Registration is limited to 12.
Participants will raft down one of the world’s most dramatic and rugged canyons while receiving personal instruction from Craig Childs who has published more than a dozen books on adventure, wilderness, and science. To experience the natural world from the bottom of Hells Canyon, the deepest river canyon in the United States, is sure to stir the imagination and provide stories for a lifetime. Hosting the trip is Winding Waters River Expeditions who will expertly navigate the river, provide delicious meals, and bring you to the best camp spots on the river. The work that will emerge is sure to paint a complex beautiful landscape, true writing of place.
From Craig Childs:
Snake River
Stories are rivers, and the way we write them is how they carry us along. In our narratives, there will be rapids and side canyon choked with boulders and fallen trees. We will translate long stretches of still water through cavernous bends where you hear the faint roar of the next plunge ahead. This will be a nonfiction workshop, true storytelling, though fiction writers will come away with useful tools about narrative and expressing the natural world. You’ll need to bring two primary journals or notebooks to the river, one for your final work and one that can be scribbled and scratched in, that doesn’t mind getting wet.
Craig Childs
Explorer and story-teller Craig Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including his most recent, Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, and The Sun, and he is a contributing editor for Adventure Journal Quarterly. Childs lives in Western Colorado and teaches writing for both University of Alaska in Anchorage and Southern New Hampshire University.
Photos of 2019 Outpost trip by Kendrick Moholt.
